Using Twitter: Twinglish for Academic purposes

Using twitter:twinglish for academic purposes
Emma Kimberley

What it does
Microblog
Short posts (140 chs)
Shows ‘followers’ your posts
You can see posts of people you follow
From flickr: inju

Glossary
Tweet
Retweet (RT)
Follow / followers
Hashtag
@gsmz
From Flickr: rosauroochoa

What it looks like
Use it on
Phone
Laptop
iPod touch
iPad
Flickr: Johann Larsson

What academics use it for
Networking
Sharing links and ideas
Peer support
Following conferences and events at a distance
‘Amplification’ of events attended
A source of regular information from journals, research councils etc…
Flickr: stevegarfield

Personal/professional profile
Consider having two separate profiles
Follow people who tweet what you want to see
Remember your followers when you tweet
Records of tweets don’t stay long but…
…indiscreet tweeting can cause embarassment!

Step 1
Go to www.twitter.com
Choose a username and sign up
* Can be your real name, or a pseudonym *

Step 2
Find people to follow:
Follow @gsmzand @lamilonguera
Look at your friends’ lists of followers
Go to people and use find friends
Browse by interest
Search organisations
Try: journals, publishers, libraries, associations, universities, researchers….

Step 2 continued…
@lamilonguera
@gsmz
@Chronicle
@UniofLeicsNews
@DailyJunction
@UoLLRA
@UoLDWL
@timeshighered
@thesiswhisperer

Step 3
Follow events and
conversations using
hashtags:
Search using the hashtag to find twitter stream
Use the hashtag in your own related posts
#phdchat
#phdemotion
#750words
#dr11
Our hashtag is #gsmz11

Top tips
Shorten links: http://bit.ly
Retweet things you find interesting
Reply to tweets
Want to meet face to face? Organise a “tweet-up”.

Now tweet something!
Using the hashtag#gsmz11 tweet
A description of your research
Your best tip for other researchers
How you relax when you’re not researching!
Reply to tweets you find interesting
Retweet things your followers will like

More things you can do
Use twitter from your phone
Download a twitter client (tweetdeck, twhirl…)
Add twitter app to facebook: http://twitter.com/widgets/facebook
Upload pictures (twitpic, twitgoo…)

Even more things…
Use twitter to update facebook with selective tweets: http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/
Link a facebook page to twitter: http://www.facebook.com/twitter/

Using Twitter: Twinglish for Academic purposes

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